Hi all,
Has anyone claimed tax relief on their CIPD membership fees?
I'm aware that you can claim tax relief on fees or subscriptions you pay to approved professional organisations. This only seems to apply however if you have to be a member of an organisation to do your job.
My employer encourages and supports it's HR staff to be CIPD qualified (and CMI qualified) and I'm therefore qualified to associate CIPD level and have Chartered CMI. However, this is now not an absolute requirement and they have employed people without any CIPD qualifications but with experience and who have relevant skills in other areas that are beneficial to the wider team.
Before I contact HMRC I'm keen to hear what other people have done?
Thanks in advance,
Gavin
Thanks to everyone for their input. I've checked the guidance from HMRC and it seems like they've changed it from:
You can reclaim tax you pay on fees or subscriptions to some approved professional organisations - but only if you must have membership to do your job or it’s helpful for your work.
To:
You can claim tax relief on fees or subscriptions you pay to approved professional organisations. This only applies if you have to be a member of an organisation to do your job.
So they've removed the 'or it’s helpful for your work'. Regardless, I'll submit my claim and will see what they do with it. Thanks again.
They list two situations where you claim tax relief:
- professional membership fees, if you must pay the fees to be able to do your job
- annual subscriptions you pay to approved professional bodies or learned societies if being a member of that body or society is relevant to your job
We come under the second one - being a member is relevant to our job. Strangely they seem to list it as Personnel and Development, Chartered Institute of in some places.
They list two situations where you claim tax relief:
- professional membership fees, if you must pay the fees to be able to do your job
- annual subscriptions you pay to approved professional bodies or learned societies if being a member of that body or society is relevant to your job
We come under the second one - being a member is relevant to our job. Strangely they seem to list it as Personnel and Development, Chartered Institute of in some places.
